Flinders University
Assoc Prof Barbara Baird
Assoc Prof
Barbara
Baird
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/barbara.baird
| Phone: | +61 8 82013437 |
| Email: | barbara.baird@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences South (381) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
After completing my PhD about South Australian women's experiences of illegal abortion (before 1970), and almost a decade working and teaching at Flinders and Adelaide University, in 1999 I went to the University of Tasmania in Hobart where I coordinated the Gender Studies program for seven years. I have been back in Adelaide, in the discipline of Women's Studies at Flinders University, since 2006.
Honours, awards and grants
ARC Discovery grant 2005-2007: Reconfiguring inimate life: Gender and sexuality as site of national redefinition in Australia since 1996
2010: Flinders University Nominee for the UniJobs Lecturer of the Year
2003: Dorothy Award for Creativity at the Gala Awards Night for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community in Tasmania
1993: Co-recipient of SA Equal Opportunity Award on behalf of Lesbian and Gay Community Action (LGCA)
Key responsibilities
Honours Coordinator, Women's Studies
Chair, School of Social and Policy Studies Reseearch Committee
I am a member of the Editorial Boards of Australian Feminist Studies, Outskirts and the Journal of Australian Studies.
Teaching
Teaching interests
My teaching interests include introductory and upper level women's and gender studies, with special interests in sexualities, masculinities, gender and sexuality in Australian history, the gendered and raced dimensions of public and private memory and commemmoration, media and cultural identities, feminism and feminist theory and in the voices and perspectives of Indigenous women.
Topic Coordinator:
- HIST2022 Memory and the Poltiics of Difference: Sex, Race and belonging
- WMST1001 Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia
- WMST2014 Media and Cultural Identities: Gender, Race and Sexuality
- WMST2016 Indigenous Women's Voices
- WMST3009 Sexualities: Perspectives, Pleasures, Poltiics
- WMST3012 Performing Masculinities
- WMST7026 Critique and Construct in Women's Studies
Research and consultancy
Research interests
The cultural politics and histories of sexuality and reproduction in Australia; abortion; representations of children and 'the child'; critical race and whiteness theories in Australian contexts; memory and representations of the past.
Postgraduate research supervision
I am interested in research higher degree supervision in these areas: sexualities - especially lesbian and queer focused projects, feminism and gender in Australian history, reproduction - especially abortion and maternity, race and whiteness, 'the child'.
I favour interdisciplinary approaches which are theoretically informed. History and cultural studies as well as women's/gender studies projects are most welcome.
While at the University of Tasmania I supervised PhD theses to successful completion in a variety of areas - the gendered nature of the newsroom, cybermaternities and gender and empire in C19th Tasmania.
Since coming to Flinders I have been involved in (co)supervising an equally eclectic mix of PhD projects - street sex workers in Bangladesh, the use of performance as a strategy for combating sexual assault, the historical representation of maids in Argentinian culture, women filmmakers in post New Order Indonesia, and the journalism of turn of the C20th US poet Ella Wheeler Willcox.
Publications
Books
Sheridan, S.M., Ryan, L., Baird, B.J., & Borrett, K.J., 2002. Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years, Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press.
Book chapters
Baird, B.J., 2011. Historical contexts for a very public Australian lesbian coupling. In Speak now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage. Melbourne, VIC: Clouds of Magellan, pp. 9-23.
Baird, B.J., 2009. Men behaving badly : the moral politics of white hegemonic masculinity in Australia. In Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and REligion. Newcastle on Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 90-104.
Baird, B.J., 2006. The futures of abortion. In Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis. Perth, WA: UWA Press, pp. 116-151.
Baird, B.J., 2004. The view from women's studies and gender studies: Australian studies in a feminist context. In THINKING AUSTRALIAN STUDIES: TEACHING ACROSS CULTURES. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, pp. 147-163.
Refereed journal articles
Baird, B.J., 2011. In relation to a white father. Critical Race and Whiteness Studies e-journal, 7(2), 1-22.
Baird, B.J., 2010. Ambivalent optimism: Women's and gender studies in Australian universities. FEMINIST REVIEW, 95(1), 111-126.
Baird, B.J., 2010. Religious Times, Religion Matters. Australian Feminist Studies, 25(66), 447-452.
Baird, B.J., 2009. Morality and patriarchal white sovereignty : three stories of gang rape in Australia. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 11(3), 372-391.
Baird, B.J., 2009. The resignation of the Governor-General : family drama and national reproduction. Cultural Studies Review, 15(1), 65-87.
Books
Sheridan, S.M., Ryan, L., Baird, B.J., & Borrett, K.J., 2002. Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years, Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press.
Book chapters
Baird, B.J., 2011. Historical contexts for a very public Australian lesbian coupling. In Speak now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage. Melbourne, VIC: Clouds of Magellan, pp. 9-23.
Baird, B.J., 2009. Men behaving badly : the moral politics of white hegemonic masculinity in Australia. In Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and REligion. Newcastle on Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 90-104.
Baird, B.J., 2006. The futures of abortion. In Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis. Perth, WA: UWA Press, pp. 116-151.
Baird, B.J., 2005. The L Word: Histories, Theories and Contemporary Stories of Lesbianism. In Perspectives in Human Sexuality. South Melbourne, Vic: Oxford University Press, pp. 61-84.
Baird, B.J., 2004. The view from women's studies and gender studies: Australian studies in a feminist context. In THINKING AUSTRALIAN STUDIES: TEACHING ACROSS CULTURES. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, pp. 147-163.
Refereed journal articles
Baird, B.J., 2011. In relation to a white father. Critical Race and Whiteness Studies e-journal, 7(2), 1-22.
Baird, B.J., 2010. Religious Times, Religion Matters. Australian Feminist Studies, 25(66), 447-452.
Baird, B.J., 2010. Ambivalent optimism: Women's and gender studies in Australian universities. FEMINIST REVIEW, 95(1), 111-126.
Baird, B.J., 2009. Morality and patriarchal white sovereignty : three stories of gang rape in Australia. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 11(3), 372-391.
Baird, B.J., 2009. The resignation of the Governor-General : family drama and national reproduction. Cultural Studies Review, 15(1), 65-87.
Baird, B.J., 2008. Child politics, feminist analyses. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(57), 291-305.
Baird, B.J., 2007. 'Gay marriage', lesbian wedding. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 3(3), 161-170.
Baird, B.J., 2006. Maternity, whiteness and national identity: the case of abortion. Australian Feminist Studies, 21(50), 197-221.
Baird, B.J., 2006. Sexual citizenship in 'the new Tasmania'. Political Geography, 25(8), 964-987.
Baird, B.J., 2005. 'Kerryn and Jackie': thinking historically about lesbian marriages. Australian Historical Studies, 37(126), 253-271.
Baird, B.J., 2004. Disciplining the aborting woman : social work and changing discourses of race, class and reproduciton in 1950s Australia. Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft, 15(1), 57-74.
Baird, B.J., 2004. Contexts for lesbian citizenships across Australian public spheres. Social Semiotics, 14(1), 67-84.
Baird, B.J., 2003. Sexual citizenship in Tasmania: stories of gay law reform. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 17(1), 3-18.
Baird, B.J., 2001. Abortion, Questions, Ethics, Embodiment. History Workshop Journal, 52, 197-216.
Journal articles
Baird, B.J., 2010. In Honour of Susan Sheridan. Australian Feminist Studies, 25(65), 353-359.
Baird, B.J., 2001. The Death of a Great Australian. Journal of Australian Studies, 71, 73-82.
Other public research outputs
Baird, B.J., 2009. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Editor),
Baird, B.J. & Riggs, D.W., 2009. The racial politics of bodies, nations and knowledges (Co-editors), Newcastle on Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Baird, B.J., 2008. Australian Feminist Studies (Guest Editor), UK: Routledge Journals.
Baird, B.J. & Angelides, S., 2005. Australian Historical Studies - Special Issue: History of Sexuality (Editor: Special Issue: History of Sexuality), Melbourne, VIC: University of Melbourne.
Baird, B.J., 2001. Abortion. The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, 21-22.
Professional and community engagement
In Tasmania and since returning to South Australia I have maintained communitty involvement with local queer communities,
